BPG …you would do better to attend to your own posts rather than trying to improve mine. NI never intimated that he thought Jesus was fictional.
Oh, but I do think that, and BPG knows it.
At the risk of repeating historic posts, the name Jesus doesn’t appear until the 4th century and the Jesus story is as re-working of previous mythology. Horus, Dionysius, Mithras etc.
Fictional!
But that’s not to say fictional literature can’t promote morality.
The Bible, however isn’t my “go to” book on the shelf!